Americans don’t know how good they have it with Amtrak trains, I would go as far as to say that they are wasted on the majority of them. The number of people we met who had never travelled by train […]
The Reunification Express
Even since watching Michael Palin Full Circle, the one thing above all that I wanted to do in Vietnam was travel by train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. In fact despite the city name change, the trains still […]
Home sweet home
On the weekend we finally made it back on British soil after 51 weeks away from home, let’s call it a year. Saturday was a lazy morning, packing our bags for the last time and gathering our thoughts. It’s hard […]
Sweet Carolina (do do doo)
North Carolina was our unexpected last stop in the US, simply because the container ship to Europe left from a place called Wilmington. It was meant to be straight forward to get there too, an overnight train from Miami to […]
We The North
After visiting New York, Toronto was bliss. The food was affordable, the metro navigable and the place names familiarly British. From York University to Don Valley Trail, it was clearly Yorkshire folk who settled in the area. We arrived on […]
In a New York minute
We arrived into the Big Apple by train from Chicago. The line is named the Lakeshore Limited because it skirts the shore of Lake Erie as far as Rochester and then heads south east, eventually meeting the Hudson River which […]
Tootin’ Tucson
Tucson Arizona was the one place in America I wanted to see, and travelling on the Sunset Limited from L.A. to New Orleans was the one journey I wanted to take. For my birthday, around New Years, my wishes came […]
From Hanoi to Hong Kong
It’s possible to travel overland from Vietnam all the way to Hong Kong within 24 hours. If you plan ahead, it is only a matter of two trains and then two metro lines taking you to Kowloon. One train to […]
Between Rivers
The name Hanoi means “Inside [the] river”. It was given this name in 1831 having previously been known as ‘Dragon Belly’, ‘Big Net’ and ‘Eastern Metropolis’, among others. It is apparently sometimes referred to as the Paris of the east, […]
Getting around Japan
We arrived in Japan by ferry from Busan in South Korea and disembarked in the city of Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu. Knowing most of our travel in Japan would be by train, rail passes had already been purchased […]
